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The race to curb the spread of COVID vaccine disinformation | Nature
by Jeff Tollefson
3 hours ago
In March, Twitter put its foot down: users who repeatedly spread false information about COVID-19 vaccines will have their accounts…
The Johnson & Johnson vaccine pause and the media’s role in communicating risk | Columbia Journalism Review
by Jason Allsop
4 days ago
Early yesterday, the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that the US pause…
Misinformation about science in the public sphere | PNAS
by Dietram A. Scheufele, Andrew J. Hoffman, Liz Neeley, and Czerne M. Reid
5 days ago
In early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic created an urgent demand, not just for scientific information and advice, but also for…
Podcast: Dr. Atul Gawande on how vax hesitancy impacts herd immunity | Axios
by Axios Re:Cap
April 9, 2021
Nearly one in five American adults is hesitant to get a COVID-19 vaccine, which could make it harder for the…
Prisons need better vaccine education for inmates, advocates say | PBS NewsHour
by Dave Collins
April 9, 2021
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Shortly before COVID-19 vaccinations began in January at the federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut, officials held…
How Black community leaders put Mississippi on the path to vaccine equity | Mississippi Today
by Will Stribling
April 9, 2021
As Mississippi’s rollout of COVID-19 vaccines began to ramp up in early 2021, a troubling truth was revealed about the…
Families divided over COVID-19 misinformation from conflicting news sources | ABC News
by Erwin Renaldi
April 8, 2021
If you have ever engaged in heated debates with your family members about COVID-19 and vaccines, you're not alone. As Australia's…
U.K. Community Leaders Fight Covid-19 Vaccine Misinformation | The New York Times
by Geneva Abdul
April 8, 2021
Minority communities in Britain have long felt estranged from the government and medical establishment, but their sense of alienation is…
Millions of white evangelicals do not intend to get vaccinated. |The New York Times
by Elizabeth Dias and Ruth Graham
April 6, 2021
Across white evangelical America, reasons not to get vaccinated have spread quickly. The deeply held spiritual convictions or counterfactual arguments…